We get to choose.
We can choose, if we know there are choices, and how to distinguish between them.
Do we know there are choices? Can we distinguish?
Wish I’d seen this little film a couple of years earlier; but it’s more poignant now, perhaps, that Zinn is no longer with us.
It’s a film from Henry Holt and Metropolitan Books, made to promote Zinn’s 2008 book, A People’s History of American Empire. This is how the film is described at the Holt site at YouTube:
Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me about the American Empire
by Howard Zinn
Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
Art by Mike Konopacki
Video editing by Eric WoldTo read more from Howard Zinn visit http://www.TomDispatch.com.
A serious student of U.S. history should always consider the view of Howard Zinn on an issue or period. Teachers of history must consider Zinn’s views, agree or disagree.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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